What Do You Expect for a Dollar?

The dollar store comes through again! I have several dollar stores near me so when I have the time and I'm near one I sometimes stop in to see what kind of cards they have in stock.  If you've been reading the blog, you might remember that the dollar store is where I found packs of Goodwin Champions.  I bought them out of the Goodwins, in fact.

This time when I went I looked at the card display and saw hockey, basketball, soccer, and a bunch of character cards (like cartoons and stuff), and I also saw a display with 2010 Topps Update packs.  There are only 5 cards in the packs and no chance at inserts, so I always pass them by.  Plus, 2010 Topps are just so...2010 (ha). 

Just when I thought I wasn't going to find anything, I looked down on the floor and saw a box of...

2008 Upper Deck Timeline!  6 cards per pack with an average of 2 insert cards per pack. For a dollar! I was sold, so I bought more:

I couldn't even remember what these cards looked like, so I stopped at five packs.  I figured I'd see what I pulled and if I liked the cards maybe I'd go and get more.

The first card I pulled out of pack #1 was:

Roy Halladay! How appropriate, right?  Then in a later pack, I pulled:

Another Roy Halladay! Damn, these packs are pretty awesome.  There are also throwback cards, die-cut cards and Yankee Stadium Legacy cards I pulled.

Check out the Evan Longoria throwback, front and back.  I have a feeling someone might want that thrown into a trade package!

So have you ever opened a pack of cards and you look at them one by one and all of them seem to be superstars?  I had that happen with one of these packs:

Wright, Hamilton, Pujols, Howard- one after another. Then a Yankee Stadium Legacy insert and a Magglio Ordonez insert.  Sweet pack.
If anyone is chasing this set or is interested in any cards let me know, and I'll see what I have.

Upcoming posts will include: Three more trades, a Super Value box break (150 cards for $5.00, you can guess how nice the pulls were), my Diamond Giveaway good fortune, and a 2011 Target value blaster four pack break.  Lots of good stuff coming up!